Easter Sunday is not a time when most of us focus our attention on politics — which may be why it was on this day that Pravda-on-the-Hudson chose to publish in its Sunday Review section David Stockman’s rant against everyone from FDR to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Ben Bernanke. When you get the time, read it and ponder its argument. It is, I believe, at least half-true. Here is a sample:

THE state-wreck ahead is a far cry from the “Great Moderation” proclaimed in 2004 by Mr. Bernanke, who predicted that prosperity would be everlasting because the Fed had tamed the business cycle and, as late as March 2007, testified that the impact of the subprime meltdown “seems likely to be contained.” Instead of moderation, what’s at hand is a Great Deformation, arising from a rogue central bank that has abetted the Wall Street casino, crucified savers on a cross of zero interest rates and fueled a global commodity bubble that erodes Main Street living standards through rising food and energy prices — a form of inflation that the Fed fecklessly disregards in calculating inflation.

I’ve been writing about China and cybersecurity issues for some time now, and was pleased to see the Wall Street Journal’s interview with Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Timothy Thomas in yesterday’s paper. Thomas has been studying Chinese cyberdoctrine for almost two decades.

 The interview, though, left out two important points that need emphasizing and re-emphasizing about our Chinese hackers

I have just returned from a Spring vacation family trip by car from Hillsdale, Michigan to Charleston, South Carolina. Along the way, as on previous excursions of this sort, I noticed various things that caused me to wonder.

One was that motels no longer take care to make travelers aware of the churches, synagogues, and temples in their vicinity and of the times in which services take place. Another was that one can no longer expect to find a Gideon Bible in one’s hotel or motel room. And there was a third such observation that I made. We used a GPS for navigation, and it afforded us with the means to find gas stations, restaurants, and, in a pinch, even a Starbucks. But it did not provide guidance for anyone in search of a church. While I was not paying close attention, something in this country changed. Religion has been marginalized. Where its presence was once pervasive and simply taken for granted, it has become almost invisible.

John Fund has raised a trial balloon on National Review Online with his suggestion that the best response to the huge dispute over gay marriage is for the state to get out of the marriage business altogether and leave it solely to private contract to create and define marital relationships. As a good libertarian, it is tempting to support this proposal. But that temptation ought to be resisted. Here is why.

One notable gap in the Fund column was any reference to the status of children of this union. That covers issues dealing with child support and inheritance rights. It also deals with issues of guardianship and divorce. It is hard enough to deal with these questions when it is known who is married to whom. It is even harder to deal with them when the nature of these private relationships resists standardization.